Established in 1974, the Journal of Japanese Studies features original, analytically rigorous articles from across the humanities and social sciences, including comparative and transnational scholarship in which Japan plays a major part

Volume 46, Number 2

Table of Contents
Volume 46, Number 2
Summer 2020

ARTICLES

Imperial Portraiture and Popular Print Media in Early Twentieth-Century Japan
ALICE Y. TSENG {abstract}

“Maihime” and the Space of Criticism in Meiji Japan
MIYABI GOTO {abstract}

Somehow, Dialogic: The Dialogic Self and the Rejection of the Modern in Nantonaku, kurisutaru
CHRISTOPHER SMITH {abstract}

A Farewell to Class: The Japanese New Left, the Colonial Landscape of Kamagasaki, and the Anti-Japanese Front (1970-75)
TILL KNAUDT {abstract}

REVIEWS

Brown, Anti-Nuclear Protest in Post-Fukushima Tokyo: Power Struggles
Wiemann, Networks and Mobilization Processes: The Case of the Japanese Anti-Nuclear Movement after Fukushima
DANIEL P. ALDRICH

Sternsdorff-Cisterna, Food Safety after Fukushima: Scientific Citizenship and the Politics of Risk
MARGHERITA LONG

Kida, Local Political Participation in Japan: A Case Study of Oita
YUSAKU HORIUCHI

Shimabuku, Alegal: Biopolitics and the Unintelligibility of Okinawan Life
MASAMICHI INOUE

Stockwin and Ampiah, Rethinking Japan: The Politics of Contested Nationalism
CHRIS WINKLER

Smith, Japan Rearmed: The Politics of Military Power
CHRISTOPHER W. HUGHES

Vosse and Midford, eds., Japan’s New Security Partnerships: Beyond the Security Alliance
H. D. P. ENVALL

Goodwin and Piggott, eds., Land, Power, and the Sacred: The Estate System in
Medieval Japan
DAVID SPAFFORD

Gerhart, ed., Women, Rites, and Ritual Objects in Premodern Japan
HEATHER BLAIR

Harper, 47: The True Story of the Vendetta of the 47 Ronin from Akō
JOHN A. TUCKER

Ng, Imagining China in Tokugawa Japan: Legends, Classics, and Historical Terms
REBEKAH CLEMENTS

Suzuki, Gendered Power: Educated Women of the Meiji Empress’ Court
G. G. ROWLEY

Fletcher, The Ghost of Namamugi: Charles Lenox Richardson and the Anglo-Satsuma War
OLEG BENESCH

Duke, Dr. David Murray: Superintendent of Education in the Empire of Japan, 1873–1879
IAN RUXTON

Matsuda, Liminality of the Japanese Empire: Border Crossings from Okinawa to Colonial Taiwan
MICHELE M. MASON

Ambaras, Japan’s Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters at the Borders of Empire
KERRY SMITH

Ward, Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan
JEREMY A. YELLEN

Kim, The Korean Buddhist Empire: A Transnational History, 1910–1945
JOHN P. DIMOIA

Lin, Colonial Taiwan: Negotiating Identities and Modernity through Literature
LEO T. S. CHING

Ziomek, Lost Histories: Recovering the Lives of Japan’s Colonial Peoples
E. TAYLOR ATKINS

Wilson, Cribb, Trefalt, and Aszkielowicz, Japanese War Criminals: The Politics of Justice after the Second World War
ROBERT CRYER

Koyama, On the Persistence of the Japanese “History Problem”: Historicism and the International Politics of History
HIRO SAITO

Van Compernolle, Struggling Upward: Worldly Success and the Japanese Novel
SETH JACOBOWITZ

Kano, Japanese Feminist Debates: A Century of Contention on Sex, Love, and Labor
ANDREA GERMER

McLaughlin, Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution: The Rise of a Mimeic nation in Modern Japan
MITSUTOSHI HORII

Carter, How to Read a Japanese Poem
ROSELEE BUNDY

Hasegawa, ed., The Cambridge Handbook of Japanese Linguistics
JUNKO MORI

Hart and Johnson, Changing and Unchanging Things: Noguchi and Hasegawa in Postwar Japan
MEGHEN JONES

Frühstück and Walthall, eds., Child’s Play: Multi-Sensory Histories of Children and Childhood in Japan
MARK JONES

Frühstück, Playing War: Children and the Paradoxes of Modern Militarism in Japan
DAVINDER L. BHOWMIK

Robertson, Robo Sapiens Japanicus: Robots, Gender, Family, and the Japanese Nation
GERALD FIGAL

Leheny, Empire of Hope: The Sentimental Politics of Japanese Decline
EIKO MARUKO SINIAWER